FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana – April 27, 2017. This year Sullivan Stolier, LLC commemorates 30 years of providing quality legal services to local, regional, and national clientele. In keeping with our strategy to expand our offerings and to provide our clients with highly competitive services well into the future, we are pleased [...]

Sullivan Stolier Schulze & Grubb is pleased to announce that Talayeh Voosoghi has joined our firm as of September 2016. Mrs. Voosoghi will be leading the firm’s newest practice area of Immigration and Naturalization Law. Talayeh is fluent in French, Farsi/Persian, and English. Our firm will also be able to offer assistance in Spanish. [...]

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2017-04-06T09:51:35+00:00 October 14th, 2016|Home|Comments Off on Welcome Talayeh Voosoghi

We welcome Timothy McGibboney to Sullivan Stolier Schulze & Grubb LLC as a new Associate. Mr. McGibboney will be working primarily in our New Orleans office with an emphasis on regulatory and corporate transactional work. Prior to becoming an attorney, he worked as a tax consultant for a prominent international consulting firm. [...]

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2017-04-07T14:16:04+00:00 October 14th, 2016|Home|Comments Off on Welcome Timothy McGibboney

ERISA Preemption of Claims against Managed Care Organizations Based upon State Law By: Michelle K. Buford, J.D., R.H.I.A. Congress enacted the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”) in 1974 [29 U.S.C. § 1101, et seq.] to create and preserve national uniformity and consistency in the administration, funding and enforcement of ERISA pension and welfare [...]

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2017-04-20T15:25:28+00:00 September 25th, 2016|News|Comments Off on ERISA Preemption of Claims against Managed Care Organizations

NEGLIGENT CREDENTIALING OF PHYSICIANS: INCREASED LIABILITY EXPOSURE FOR HOSPITALS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Louisiana Third Circuit recently held in Billeaudeau v. Opelousas General Hosp. Authority, 189 So. 3d 561 (La. App. 3d Cir. 2016) that a claim for “negligent credentialing” of a physician by a hospital does not constitute medical malpractice subject to the terms [...]

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2017-04-20T15:26:26+00:00 August 15th, 2016|News|Comments Off on NEGLIGENT CREDENTIALING OF PHYSICIANS

Medicare Outpatient Observation Notice (MOON) … Coming Soon to a Hospital Near You On April 18, 2016, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") released a proposed rule for implementing the Notice of Observation Treatment and Implication for Care Eligibility ("NOTICE") Act. The proposed rule requires CMS to develop a standardized form known [...]